Example sentences of "i be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in places I been to hundreds of times . |
| 2 | How successful have I been at various jobs ? |
| 3 | Where had I been before that ? |
| 4 | ‘ How long have I been like this ? ’ she asked in one interval . |
| 5 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 6 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend the Minister and I are in frequent contact with the president of the National Farmers Union about all aspects of the agriculture industry , including the beef sector . |
| 8 | Chancellor Kohl and I are in frequent contact by telephone to discuss matters of mutual interest . |
| 9 | ‘ But just between you and me and SHE magazine , her Majesty and I are like that , ‘ said Dame Edna , indicating a royal chumminess that went beyond mere Commonwealth ties . |
| 10 | ‘ Yury Vladimirovich is my closest friend , he and I are like two brothers , we used to play football together when we were little . |
| 11 | I have heard Shirai and Höll do nothing better than their reading of this cycle which , sated though I am through repeated hearing of the work , I found gripping from start to finish . |
| 12 | ‘ That is because I am under this roof . ’ |
| 13 | It is not , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am under any illusion on this score . |
| 14 | I shall die when I am between seventy-five and eighty , in all likelihood ; Helen will outlive me — women live longer , it seems . |
| 15 | I am at that crossroads . |
| 16 | I 'm as good at this as I am at being chairman of the board — and you know how good I am at that … ’ |
| 17 | I am at one with the hon. Gentleman in believing that it is important that we develop such a policy — but neither he nor I , nor anyone else , can say that any particular state of agriculture is frozen . |
| 18 | A while ago I considered changing my snookering nickname ( which I am at complete liberty to do , because I 'm the only one who uses it ) , to take account of the New Weather : global warming , and so on . |
| 19 | For I am at such an inn because it is all I can afford — and you would not be here had you better means . ’ |
| 20 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 21 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 22 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 23 | I drift , dither , grope , fumble … and there I am at last , half-dressed in the kitchen with cigarettes and coffee-filters . |
| 24 | I feel I am at last in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 25 | I am as well darling ! |
| 26 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 27 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 28 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 29 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 30 | Looking at her he thought , ‘ Do I realize how important I am to this woman ? |